Cregan, Kate,

Global childhoods : issues and debates / Kate Cregan and Denise Cuthbert. - Los Angeles: SAGE, 2014. - xii, 196 pages : 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-185) and index.

Knowing children: theory and method in the study of childhood -- What is a child?: Making meaning of children and childhood -- Global childhoods: children as objects of national and global concern -- The convention on the rights of the child and the construction of the normative global child -- The habitus of childhood: home, school, work -- Children and disaster: 'child soldiers' and orphans -- The child and the nation: case studies in the persecution and forced removal of children by the state -- The value of children -- Future children: identity and perfectibility.

A critical exploration of the constructions of childhood across the social sciences. It questions common global Northern conceptions of childhood and children by providing a wider lens through which to challenge inherent Eurocentrism.

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GBB497154 bnb

016863258 Uk


Child development.
Children.
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Sozialwissenschaften.
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Barndomen.
Globalisering.

HQ 767 / CRE 2014